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Post by sue75 on Mar 20, 2013 17:00:37 GMT -5
(The date is off (1933) but this is in interesting THEORY as to how the Lindbergh baby may have died.)
SIREN PROMPTED MURDER
Lindbergh Killer Frightened by Town Alarm, Negro Bootblack Says.
The tragic kidnapping and death of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., infant son of the noted isolationist, was brought to mind yesterday by an anonymous Negro bootblack on Witherspoon St., who insists that the Princeton Fire Department siren prompted the murder. The Ethiopian stated flatly that by sheer coincidence while the kidnapper was hurrying across the Hopewell meadows with the child towards midnight on March 1, 1933, the fire alarm sounded in Princeton. The criminal, hearing the distant eerie wail, mistook it for approaching police, and fearing that he had been discovered and that arrest was imminent, he killed the child in desperation and hid the body so that at least he would not be caught red-handed.
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Post by sue75 on Mar 20, 2013 17:03:48 GMT -5
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Post by john on Mar 21, 2013 0:09:15 GMT -5
This is very interesting, Sue. Thanks. It may mean nothing or a great deal. Whatever the truth it puts forth an interesting hypothesis, broadly speaking, as to how and why Charlie Lindberg was killed the night of March 1, 1932.
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Post by stella7 on Mar 21, 2013 7:11:42 GMT -5
I highly doubt it could be hard that far. Certainly cannot be heard nowadays, but there's much more noise now and we're used to hearing sirens all the time.
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Post by stella7 on Mar 21, 2013 8:44:42 GMT -5
Since William Allen was black, perhaps this is a theory that developed in the African American community.
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Post by jdanniel on Mar 27, 2013 17:25:05 GMT -5
Here's my theory:
The kidnapper(s) had nerves of titanium and would not have been flustered by a siren or anything else.
Also, keep in mind that anyone attempting to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo, non-stop, circa 1927, most likely had nerves of titanium.
Furthermore: I live just a couple of miles from Witherspoon Street. (You can occasionally find me munching on a Conte's pizza down the end of that street.)
I've been to Highfields. You CANNOT hear anything on Witherspoon Street at Highfields. Hopewell is close to Princeton, yes, but not THAT close. Not even in 1932.
Jd
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Post by stella7 on Mar 27, 2013 21:18:58 GMT -5
Contes rules!
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